Digital technologies are rapidly changing the way we live.

The internet connects us on a global basis and plays a pivotal role in fields such as healthcare, education, energy, and public safety. We rely on an array of devices - personal computers, tablets and mobile phones - to entertain and inform us. Access to communications networks is essential.

At the center of this enormously complex media universe are thousands of companies offering a dazzling array of products and services. All of them have something in common: their corporate policies and practices play a huge role in determining who has access to media and on what terms.